Still I Rise and Realities of Black Women

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Both poems “Still I Rise” and “Realities Of Black Women” are about how black people, black women in particular are deprived of basic Human rights and how hard and dangerous their lives are in society, and how they wish that one day everyone will be treated equally.

In the poem “still I rise” I think that Maya Angelon wrote it because she wanted people to understand more about how black people paticurly women have suffered and have been deprived of their basic rights over the years.  She wanted us to think about was at paragraph 7, where it said, “does my sexiness upset you? Does it come to a supprise?  This makes us think that she does the opposite to what a white persons stereotype of a black women.  It tells us how white people lie about blacks about their life style and the way in which they live their life style and the way they live, from “you may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies”.  

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It also shows us that white people like to and are use to seeing black people suffer, more that usual.  The poem tells us about how racist some whites are about blacks because of the words and actions whites do, from “you may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes”.  The media often suggests that all black women are whores and rape victims, but blacks value themselves and their sexuality greatly.

Angelon is looking forward to a bright future, for black people.

Angelous poem has very meaningful imagery such as “cause I laugh ...

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